Winston Peters fired the first shot on what some commentators believe will be a political comeback campaign, in a letter this week emailed to NZ First members. He wrote “before we make a new beginning we want to use the hardest word in the English language - SORRY.” A copy of the letter, dated July and distributed this week, was published by Newsroom’s Marie McNicholas. Peters acknowledges “we” made mistakes and allowed opponents to create a perception of wrongdoing when, in fact, no offences were committed. “This will not happen again.” NZ First holds its annual meeting at the end of next month, and Peters says “we” want to welcome new talent and new ideas. But there will be a lot of the old rhetoric as well, particularly on the Foreshore & Seabed Act, on which Peters says no group can suddenly claim title to something everyone owns.

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